The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-06-30

was uncnaineu, ana with a rormIdaDie'
leapreached the throat of the figure, she,
fell back with piece in her. mouth, but
only to bound forward again, burying her
teeth in the, cords and tearing away the
sausage inch by inch, biting, snarling and
crunching it in ungovernable hunger and
ferQcity zs a ~:
Mother. sSayerini watched the dog with.
kindling eyes. When the meat was en-
tirely consumed and the neck of the
ihaffkia Corn to shreds,F ySemiliante wasi
secured anew to be starved and then fed
v Fer three months,iat intervals of q day
or two, this exercise went on, Semillante
~gratiualiy being taught s=to=oehquer.r her,
food by the strokes of her teeth. At the
end of the three monthsa the lesson StSft-
learned and the moment the repe:,was
$leosened: and at a gesture from her mis-
tress she would fling herself upon the
neck of the manikin and begin to tear it,
even when no feod. had been tiled about 1T,
for now she KNEW what was expected o.
her, and that broiled sausage would re-
ward her when the work was done.
8 mdeed, SO thoroughly Had Senfllante
entered into the spirit the aaty For
which she had been in training that the
] simple sight Of her enemy or O. word from .
her mistress was sufficient to rouse her to
a pitch of fury impossible to control.
q The time had come and Mother Save
rini, going to the village church once
more, threw herself upon her knees,
prayed with deep, ecstaticl ferHor, and
then, accompanied by her dog, betook
herself to the boat of one of the Sardinian
fishermen, who carried her across the
strait and to the neighborhood Of Longo-
sardo. In the bag which she carried on
her arm was a. long roll Of black sausage,
of which Semillante, who had been fast
ting for several days, was INDUCED with
an occasional sniff, only enough to keep
her eager for her work. r.: /:
Limping and bent with age, Antoine
Saxerini's mother made her way into the
village Of Longosardo and began her tp-
quiries.
'Yes, I" said the baker. to whom she first
applied, Nicolas Rayola1 was there, and
likely to! remain there, as he had taken
up his old traae5of carpentry ard joining
He worked alone in the little shop at the
lend of the street; she would find him
+ there.":.:. l.rt,%s mo !...s,f.,,...,, ,.,...
Mother Saverini obeyed his instruc-
lions, and five minutes later knocked at
the uOOr OI naVOlatl'S SnOp.
For a WHILE after : this there Z. was
nothing hut "a confused sound of crowds,
moa1ts and astrangled cries coming from
the depths Of that narrow room. At last
the noise Of heavy fall, and then
silencel -: :: ri+-s..,.4.;sres 1xn!..
The next day Nicolas Ravolaa was
found by O customer who had come to
give him an order lying on the floor dead
the flesh and muscles OF his face and neck
torn and separated into strips: Several
Of his neighbors, when they came to think
about it, remembered perfectly having
seen an old, decrepit woman; and mon
strous dog, seemingly half starved and
gnawing eagerly upon something brown
that the woman gave it, pass from the
shop and take their way along, the coast
in the, direction of Eanifacio. No one,
however, took any trouble to look her up
or to ask any questions as to Ravolati's
death, but of one thing you may be Ger
T tain-for the first night in many months
| Mother Saverini slept well and sounHy,
and Semillante had all that she: Gould
eat-Translated from the Frenehof Guy
De Maupassapt* by E. G. Waggener for
| New York Mercury. -i&''--'.''~